Endymion: Book Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Muse of my native land loftiest Muse	A
O first born on the mountains by the hues	A
Of heaven on the spiritual air begot	B
Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot	B
While yet our England was a wolfish den	C
Before our forests heard the talk of men	C
Before the first of Druids was a child	B
Long didst thou sit amid our regions wild	B
Rapt in a deep prophetic solitude	B
There came an eastern voice of solemn mood	B
Yet wast thou patient Then sang forth the Nine	D
Apollo's garland yet didst thou divine	D
Such home bred glory that they cry'd in vain	E
Come hither Sister of the Island Plain	E
Spake fair Ausonia and once more she spake	F
A higher summons still didst thou betake	F
Thee to thy native hopes O thou hast won	G
A full accomplishment The thing is done	G
Which undone these our latter days had risen	G
On barren souls Great Muse thou know'st what prison	G
Of flesh and bone curbs and confines and frets	H
Our spirit's wings despondency besets	H
Our pillows and the fresh to morrow morn	I
Seems to give forth its light in very scorn	I
Of our dull uninspired snail paced lives	H
Long have I said how happy he who shrives	H
To thee But then I thought on poets gone	J
And could not pray nor can I now so on	K
I move to the end in lowliness of heart	B
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Ah woe is me that I should fondly part	B
From my dear native land Ah foolish maid	B
Glad was the hour when with thee myriads bade	B
Adieu to Ganges and their pleasant fields	H
To one so friendless the clear freshet yields	H
A bitter coolness the ripe grape is sour	L
Yet I would have great gods but one short hour	L
Of native air let me but die at home	M
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Endymion to heaven's airy dome	M
Was offering up a hecatomb of vows	H
When these words reach'd him Whereupon he bows	H
His head through thorny green entanglement	B
Of underwood and to the sound is bent	B
Anxious as hind towards her hidden fawn	J
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Is no one near to help me No fair dawn	J
Of life from charitable voice No sweet saying	N
To set my dull and sadden'd spirit playing	N
No hand to toy with mine No lips so sweet	B
That I may worship them No eyelids meet	B
To twinkle on my bosom No one dies	H
Before me till from these enslaving eyes	H
Redemption sparkles I am sad and lost	B
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Thou Carian lord hadst better have been tost	B
Into a whirlpool Vanish into air	O
Warm mountaineer for canst thou only bear	O
A woman's sigh alone and in distress	H
See not her charms Is Phoebe passionless	H
Phoebe is fairer far O gaze no more	P
Yet if thou wilt behold all beauty's store	P
Behold her panting in the forest grass	H
Do not those curls of glossy jet surpass	H
For tenderness the arms so idly lain	E
Amongst them Feelest not a kindred pain	E
To see such lovely eyes in swimming search	Q
After some warm delight that seems to perch	Q
Dovelike in the dim cell lying beyond	B
Their upper lids Hist O for Hermes' wand	B
To touch this flower into human shape	R
That woodland Hyacinthus could escape	R
From his green prison and here kneeling down	S
Call me his queen his second life's fair crown	S
Ah me how I could love My soul doth melt	B
For the unhappy youth Love I have felt	B
So faint a kindness such a meek surrender	L
To what my own full thoughts had made too tender	L
That but for tears my life had fled away	T
Ye deaf and senseless minutes of the day	T
And thou old forest hold ye this for true	U
There is no lightning no authentic dew	U
But in the eye of love there's not a sound	B
Melodious howsoever can confound	B
The heavens and earth in one to such a death	V
As doth the voice of love there's not a breath	V
Will mingle kindly with the meadow air	O
Till it has panted round and stolen a share	O
Of passion from the heart	B
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Upon a bough	W
He leant wretched He surely cannot now	W
Thirst for another love O impious	H
That he can even dream upon it thus	H
Thought he Why am I not as are the dead	B
Since to a woe like this I have been led	B
Through the dark earth and through the wondrous sea	H
Goddess I love thee not the less from thee	H
By Juno's smile I turn not no no no	X
While the great waters are at ebb and flow	X
I have a triple soul O fond pretence	H
For both for both my love is so immense	H
I feel my heart is cut in twain for them	Y
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And so he groan'd as one by beauty slain	E
The lady's heart beat quick and he could see	H
Her gentle bosom heave tumultuously	X
He sprang from his green covert there she lay	X
Sweet as a muskrose upon new made hay	X
With all her limbs on tremble and her eyes	H
Shut softly up alive To speak he tries	H
Fair damsel pity me forgive that I	Z
Thus violate thy bower's sanctity	H
O pardon me for I am full of grief	A2
Grief born of thee young angel fairest thief	A2
Who stolen hast away the wings wherewith	H
I was to top the heavens Dear maid sith	H
Thou art my executioner and I feel	X
Loving and hatred misery and weal	X
Will in a few short hours be nothing to me	H
And all my story that much passion slew me	H
Do smile upon the evening of my days	H
And for my tortur'd brain begins to craze	H
Be thou my nurse and let me understand	B
How dying I shall kiss that lily hand	B
Dost weep for me Then should I be content	B
Scowl on ye fates until the firmament	B
Outblackens Erebus and the full cavern'd earth	H
Crumbles into itself By the cloud girth	H
Of Jove those tears have given me a thirst	B
To meet oblivion As her heart would burst	B
The maiden sobb'd awhile and then replied	B
Why must such desolation betide	B
As that thou speakest of Are not these green nooks	H
Empty of all misfortune Do the brooks	H
Utter a gorgon voice Does yonder thrush	B2
Schooling its half fledg'd little ones to brush	B2
About the dewy forest whisper tales	H
Speak not of grief young stranger or cold snails	H
Will slime the rose to night Though if thou wilt	B
Methinks 'twould be a guilt a very guilt	B
Not to companion thee and sigh away	X
The light the dusk the dark till break of day	X
Dear lady said Endymion 'tis past	B
I love thee and my days can never last	B
That I may pass in patience still speak	C2
Let me have music dying and I seek	C2
No more delight I bid adieu to all	X
Didst thou not after other climates call	X
And murmur about Indian streams Then she	H
Sitting beneath the midmost forest tree	H
For pity sang this roundelay	X
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O Sorrow	X
Why dost borrow	X
The natural hue of health from vermeil lips	H
To give maiden blushes	H
To the white rose bushes	H
Or is it thy dewy hand the daisy tips	H
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O Sorrow	X
Why dost borrow	X
The lustrous passion from a falcon eye	Z
To give the glow worm light	B
Or on a moonless night	B
To tinge on syren shores the salt sea spry	Z
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O Sorrow	X
Why dost borrow	X
The mellow ditties from a mourning tongue	D2
To give at evening pale	X
Unto the nightingale	X
That thou mayst listen the cold dews among	D2
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O Sorrow	X
Why dost borrow	X
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May	X
A lover would not tread	B
A cowslip on the head	B
Though he should dance from eve till peep of day	X
Nor any drooping flower	L
Held sacred for thy bower	L
Wherever he may sport himself and play	X
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To Sorrow	X
I bade good morrow	X
And thought to leave her far away behind	B
But cheerly cheerly	X
She loves me dearly	X
She is so constant to me and so kind	B
I would deceive her	L
And so leave her	L
But ah she is so constant and so kind	B
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Beneath my palm trees by the river side	B
I sat a weeping in the whole world wide	B
There was no one to ask me why I wept	B
And so I kept	B
Brimming the water lily cups with tears	H
Cold as my fears	H
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Beneath my palm trees by the river side	B
I sat a weeping what enamour'd bride	B
Cheated by shadowy wooer from the clouds	H
But hides and shrouds	H
Beneath dark palm trees by a river side	B
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And as I sat over the light blue hills	H
There came a noise of revellers the rills	H
Into the wide stream came of purple hue	U
'Twas Bacchus and his crew	U
The earnest trumpet spake and silver thrills	H
From kissing cymbals made a merry din	E2
'Twas Bacchus and his kin	E2
Like to a moving vintage down they came	F2
Crown'd with green leaves and faces all on flame	F2
All madly dancing through the pleasant valley	X
To scare thee Melancholy	X
O then O then thou wast a simple name	F2
And I forgot thee as the berried holly	X
By shepherds is forgotten when in June	G2
Tall chesnuts keep away the sun and moon	G2
I rush'd into the folly	X
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Within his car aloft young Bacchus stood	B
Trifling his ivy dart in dancing mood	B
With sidelong laughing	N
And little rills of crimson wine imbrued	B
His plump white arms and shoulders enough white	B
For Venus' pearly bite	B
And near him rode Silenus on his ass	H
Pelted with flowers as he on did pass	H
Tipsily quaffing	N
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Whence came ye merry Damsels whence came ye	X
So many and so many and such glee	X
Why have ye left your bowers desolate	B
Your lutes and gentler fate	B
'We follow Bacchus Bacchus on the wing	N
A conquering	N
Bacchus young Bacchus good or ill betide	B
We dance before him thorough kingdoms wide	B
Come hither lady fair and joined be	X
To our wild minstrelsy '	-
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Whence came ye jolly Satyrs whence came ye	X
So many and so many and such glee	X
Why have ye left your forest haunts why left	B
Your nuts in oak tree cleft	B
'For wine for wine we left our kernel tree	X
For wine we left our heath and yellow brooms	H
And cold mushrooms	H
For wine we follow Bacchus through the earth	H
Great God of breathless cups and chirping mirth	H
Come hither lady fair and joined be	X
To our mad minstrelsy '	-
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Over wide streams and mountains great we went	B
And save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent	B
Onward the tiger and the leopard pants	H
With Asian elephants	H
Onward these myriads with song and dance	H
With zebras striped and sleek Arabians' prance	H
Web footed alligators crocodiles	H
Bearing upon their scaly backs in files	H
Plump infant laughers mimicking the coil	X
Of seamen and stout galley rowers' toil	X
With toying oars and silken sails they glide	B
Nor care for wind and tide	B
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Mounted on panthers' furs and lions' manes	H
From rear to van they scour about the plains	H
A three days' journey in a moment done	G
And always at the rising of the sun	G
About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn	I
On spleenful unicorn	I
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I saw Osirian Egypt kneel adown	I
Before the vine wreath crown	I
I saw parch'd Abyssinia rouse and sing	N
To the silver cymbals' ring	N
I saw the whelming vintage hotly pierce	H
Old Tartary the fierce	H
The kings of Inde their jewel sceptres vail	X
And from their treasures scatter pearled hail	X
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans	H
And all his priesthood moans	H
Before young Bacchus' eye wink turning pale	X
Into these regions came I following him	H2
Sick hearted weary so I took a whim	H2
To stray away into these forests drear	X
Alone without a peer	X
And I have told thee all thou mayest hear	X
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Young stranger	X
I've been a ranger	X
In search of pleasure throughout every clime	H2
Alas 'tis not for me	H2
Bewitch'd I sure must be	H2
To lose in grieving all my maiden prime	H2
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Come then Sorrow	X
Sweetest Sorrow	X
Like an own babe I nurse thee on my breast	B
I thought to leave thee	H2
And deceive thee	H2
But now of all the world I love thee best	B
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There is not one	I
No no not one	I
But thee to comfort a poor lonely maid	B
Thou art her mother	X
And her brother	X
Her playmate and her wooer in the shade	B
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O what a sigh she gave in finishing	N
And look quite dead to every worldly thing	N
Endymion could not speak but gazed on her	X
And listened to the wind that now did stir	X
About the crisped oaks full drearily	X
Yet with as sweet a softness as might be	H2
Remember'd from its velvet summer song	N
At last he said Poor lady how thus long	N
Have I been able to endure that voice	H
Fair Melody kind Syren I've no choice	H
I must be thy sad servant evermore	X
I cannot choose but kneel here and adore	X
Alas I must not think by Phoebe no	X
Let me not think soft Angel shall it be so	X
Say beautifullest shall I never think	N
O thou could'st foster me beyond the brink	N
Of recollection make my watchful care	X
Close up its bloodshot eyes nor see despair	X
Do gently murder half my soul and I	Z
Shall feel the other half so utterly	H2
I'm giddy at that cheek so fair and smooth	H
O let it blush so ever let it soothe	H
My madness let it mantle rosy warm	H2
With the tinge of love panting in safe alarm	H2
This cannot be thy hand and yet it is	H
And this is sure thine other softling this	H
Thine own fair bosom and I am so near	X
Wilt fall asleep O let me sip that tear	X
And whisper one sweet word that I may know	X
This is this world sweet dewy blossom Woe	X
Woe Woe to that Endymion Where is he	H2
Even these words went echoing dismally	H2
Through the wide forest a most fearful tone	I
Like one repenting in his latest moan	I
And while it died away a shade pass'd by	Z
As of a thunder cloud When arrows fly	Z
Through the thick branches poor ring doves sleek forth	H
Their timid necks and tremble so these both	H
Leant to each other trembling and sat so	X
Waiting for some destruction when lo	X
Foot feather'd Mercury appear'd sublime	H2
Beyond the tall tree tops and in less time	H2
Than shoots the slanted hail storm down he dropt	B
Towards the ground but rested not nor stopt	B
One moment from his home only the sward	B
He with his wand light touch'd and heavenward	B
Swifter than sight was gone even before	X
The teeming earth a sudden witness bore	X
Of his swift magic Diving swans appear	X
Above the crystal circlings white and clear	X
And catch the cheated eye in wild surprise	H
How they can dive in sight and unseen rise	H
So from the turf outsprang two steeds jet black	N
Each with large dark blue wings upon his back	N
The youth of Caria plac'd the lovely dame	H2
On one and felt himself in spleen to tame	H2
The other's fierceness Through the air they flew	X
High as the eagles Like two drops of dew	X
Exhal'd to Phoebus' lips away they are gone	I
Far from the earth away unseen alone	I
Among cool clouds and winds but that the free	H2
The buoyant life of song can floating be	H2
Above their heads and follow them untir'd	X
Muse of my native land am I inspir'd	X
This is the giddy air and I must spread	X
Wide pinions to keep here nor do I dread	X
Or height or depth or width or any chance	H
Precipitous I have beneath my glance	H
Those towering horses and their mournful freight	X
Could I thus sail and see and thus await	X
Fearless for power of thought without thine aid	X
There is a sleepy dusk an odorous shade	X
From some approaching wonder and behold	X
Those winged steeds with snorting nostrils bold	X
Snuff at its faint extreme and seem to tire	X
Dying to embers from their native fire	X
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There curl'd a purple mist around them soon	I
It seem'd as when around the pale new moon	I
Sad Zephyr droops the clouds like weeping willow	X
'Twas Sleep slow journeying with head on pillow	X
For the first time since he came nigh dead born	I
From the old womb of night his cave forlorn	I
Had he left more forlorn for the first time	H2
He felt aloof the day and morning's prime	H2
Because into his depth Cimmerian	I
There came a dream shewing how a young man	I
Ere a lean bat could plump its wintery skin	I
Would at high Jove's empyreal footstool win	I
An immortality and how espouse	H
Jove's daughter and be reckon'd of his house	H
Now was he slumbering towards heaven's gate	X
That he might at the threshold one hour wait	X
To hear the marriage melodies and then	I
Sink downward to his dusky cave again	I
His litter of smooth semilucent mist	X
Diversely ting'd with rose and amethyst	X
Puzzled those eyes that for the centre sought	X
And scarcely for one moment could be caught	X
His sluggish form reposing motionless	H
Those two on winged steeds with all the stress	H
Of vision search'd for him as one would look	N
Athwart the sallows of a river nook	N
To catch a glance at silver throated eels	H
Or from old Skiddaw's top when fog conceals	H
His rugged forehead in a mantle pale	X
With an eye guess towards some pleasant vale	X
Descry a favourite hamlet faint and far	X
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These raven horses though they foster'd are	X
Of earth's splenetic fire dully drop	I2
Their full veined ears nostrils blood wide and stop	I2
Upon the spiritless mist have they outspread	X
Their ample feathers are in slumber dead	X
And on those pinions level in mid air	X
Endymion sleepeth and the lady fair	X
Slowly they sail slowly as icy isle	X
Upon a calm sea drifting and meanwhile	X
The mournful wanderer dreams Behold he walks	H
On heaven's pavement brotherly he talks	H
To divine powers from his hand full fain	I
Juno's proud birds are pecking pearly grain	I
He tries the nerve of Phoebus' golden bow	W
And asketh where the golden apples grow	X
Upon his arm he braces Pallas' shield	X
And strives in vain to unsettle and wield	X
A Jovian thunderbolt arch Hebe brings	H
A full brimm'd goblet dances lightly sings	H
And tantalizes long at last he drinks	H
And lost in pleasure at her feet he sinks	H
Touching with dazzled lips her starlight hand	X
He blows a bugle an ethereal band	X
Are visible above the Seasons four	X
Green kyrtled Spring flush Summer golden store	X
In Autumn's sickle Winter frosty hoar	X
Join dance with shadowy Hours while still the blast	X
In swells unmitigated still doth last	X
To sway their floating morris Whose is this	H
Whose bugle he inquires they smile O Dis	H
Why is this mortal here Dost thou not know	X
Its mistress' lips Not thou 'Tis Dian's lo	X
She rises crescented He looks 'tis she	H2
His very goddess good bye earth and sea	H2
And air and pains and care and suffering	N
Good bye to all but love Then doth he spring	N
Towards her and awakes and strange o'erhead	X
Of those same fragrant exhalations bred	X
Beheld awake his very dream the gods	H
Stood smiling merry Hebe laughs and nods	H
And Phoebe bends towards him crescented	X
O state perplexing On the pinion bed	X
Too well awake he feels the panting side	X
Of his delicious lady He who died	X
For soaring too audacious in the sun	I
Where that same treacherous wax began to run	I
Felt not more tongue tied than Endymion	I
His heart leapt up as to its rightful throne	I
To that fair shadow'd passion puls'd its way	X
Ah what perplexity Ah well a day	X
So fond so beauteous was his bed fellow	X
He could not help but kiss her then he grew	X
Awhile forgetful of all beauty save	J2
Young Phoebe's golden hair'd and so 'gan crave	J2
Forgiveness yet he turn'd once more to look	N
At the sweet sleeper all his soul was shook	N
She press'd his hand in slumber so once more	X
He could not help but kiss her and adore	X
At this the shadow wept melting away	X
The Latmian started up Bright goddess stay	X
Search my most hidden breast By truth's own tongue	N
I have no d dale heart why is it wrung	N
To desperation Is there nought for me	H2
Upon the bourne of bliss but misery	H2
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These words awoke the stranger of dark tresses	H
Her dawning love look rapt Endymion blesses	H
With 'haviour soft Sleep yawned from underneath	H
Thou swan of Ganges let us no more breathe	H
This murky phantasm thou contented seem'st	X
Pillow'd in lovely idleness nor dream'st	X
What horrors may discomfort thee and me	H2
Ah shouldst thou die from my heart treachery	H2
Yet did she merely weep her gentle soul	X
Hath no revenge in it as it is whole	X
In tenderness would I were whole in love	K2
Can I prize thee fair maid all price above	K2
Even when I feel as true as innocence	H
I do I do What is this soul then Whence	H
Came it It does not seem my own and I	Z
Have no self passion or identity	H2
Some fearful end must be where where is it	X
By Nemesis I see my spirit flit	X
Alone about the dark Forgive me sweet	X
Shall we away He rous'd the steeds they beat	X
Their wings chivalrous into the clear air	X
Leaving old Sleep within his vapoury lair	X
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The good night blush of eve was waning slow	X
And Vesper risen star began to throe	X
In the dusk heavens silvery when they	X
Thus sprang direct towards the Galaxy	H2
Nor did speed hinder converse soft and strange	L2
Eternal oaths and vows they interchange	L2
In such wise in such temper so aloof	M2
Up in the winds beneath a starry roof	M2
So witless of their doom that verily	X
'Tis well nigh past man's search their hearts to see	H2
Whether they wept or laugh'd or griev'd or toy'd	X
Most like with joy gone mad with sorrow cloy'd	X
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Full facing their swift flight from ebon streak	N
The moon put forth a little diamond peak	N
No bigger than an unobserved star	X
Or tiny point of fairy scymetar	X
Bright signal that she only stoop'd to tie	X
Her silver sandals ere deliciously	H2
She bow'd into the heavens her timid head	X
Slowly she rose as though she would have fled	X
While to his lady meek the Carian turn'd	X
To mark if her dark eyes had yet discern'd	X
This beauty in its birth Despair despair	X
He saw her body fading gaunt and spare	X
In the cold moonshine Straight he seiz'd her wrist	X
It melted from his grasp her hand he kiss'd	X
And horror kiss'd his own he was alone	I
Her steed a little higher soar'd and then	I
Dropt hawkwise to the earth There lies a den	I
Beyond the seeming confines of the space	H
Made for the soul to wander in and trace	H
Its own existence of remotest glooms	H
Dark regions are around it where the tombs	H
Of buried griefs the spirit sees but scarce	H
One hour doth linger weeping for the pierce	H
Of new born woe it feels more inly smart	X
And in these regions many a venom'd dart	X
At random flies they are the proper home	H2
Of every ill the man is yet to come	H2
Who hath not journeyed in this native hell	X
But few have ever felt how calm and well	X
Sleep may be had in that deep den of all	X
There anguish does not sting nor pleasure pall	X
Woe hurricanes beat ever at the gate	X
Yet all is still within and desolate	X
Beset with painful gusts within ye hear	X
No sound so loud as when on curtain'd bier	X
The death watch tick is stifled Enter none	I
Who strive therefore on the sudden it is won	I
Just when the sufferer begins to burn	I
Then it is free to him and from an urn	I
Still fed by melting ice he takes a draught	X
Young Semele such richness never quaft	X
In her maternal longing Happy gloom	H2
Dark Paradise where pale becomes the bloom	H2
Of health by due where silence dreariest	X
Is most articulate where hopes infest	X
Where those eyes are the brightest far that keep	N2
Their lids shut longest in a dreamless sleep	N2
O happy spirit home O wondrous soul	X
Pregnant with such a den to save the whole	X
In thine own depth Hail gentle Carian	I
For never since thy griefs and woes began	I
Hast thou felt so content a grievous feud	X
Hath let thee to this Cave of Quietude	X
Aye his lull'd soul was there although upborne	I
With dangerous speed and so he did not mourn	I
Because he knew not whither he was going	N
So happy was he not the aerial blowing	N
Of trumpets at clear parley from the east	X
Could rouse from that fine relish that high feast	X
They stung the feather'd horse with fierce alarm	H2
He flapp'd towards the sound Alas no charm	H2
Could lift Endymion's head or he had view'd	X
A skyey mask a pinion'd multitude	X
And silvery was its passing voices sweet	X
Warbling the while as if to lull and greet	X
The wanderer in his path Thus warbled they	X
While past the vision went in bright array	X
	-
Who who from Dian's feast would be away	X
For all the golden bowers of the day	X
Are empty left Who who away would be	H2
From Cynthia's wedding and festivity	H2
Not Hesperus lo upon his silver wings	H
He leans away for highest heaven and sings	H
Snapping his lucid fingers merrily	H2
Ah Zephyrus art here and Flora too	X
Ye tender bibbers of the rain and dew	X
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil	X
Be careful ere ye enter in to fill	X
Your baskets high	X
With fennel green and balm and golden pines	H
Savory latter mint and columbines	H
Cool parsley basil sweet and sunny thyme	H2
Yea every flower and leaf of every clime	H2
All gather'd in the dewy morning hie	H2
Away fly fly	X
Crystalline brother of the belt of heaven	I
Aquarius to whom king Jove has given	I
Two liquid pulse streams 'stead of feather'd wings	H
Two fan like fountains thine illuminings	H
For Dian play	X
Dissolve the frozen purity of air	X
Let thy white shoulders silvery and bare	X
Shew cold through watery pinions make more bright	X
The Star Queen's crescent on her marriage night	X
Haste haste away	X
Castor has tamed the planet Lion see	H
And of the Bear has Pollux mastery	H
A third is in the race who is the third	X
Speeding away swift as the eagle bird	X
The ramping Centaur	X
The Lion's mane's on end the Bear how fierce	H
The Centaur's arrow ready seems to pierce	H
Some enemy far forth his bow is bent	X
Into the blue of heaven He'll be shent	X
Pale unrelentor	X
When he shall hear the wedding lutes a playing	N
Andromeda sweet woman why delaying	N
So timidly among the stars come hither	X
Join this bright throng and nimbly follow whither	X
They all are going	N
Danae's Son before Jove newly bow'd	X
Has wept for thee calling to Jove aloud	X
Thee gentle lady did he disenthral	X
Ye shall for ever live and love for all	X
Thy tears are flowing	N
By Daphne's fright behold Apollo	X
	-
More	X
Endymion heard not down his steed him bore	X
Prone to the green head of a misty hill	X
	-
His first touch of the earth went nigh to kill	X
Alas said he were I but always borne	I
Through dangerous winds had but my footsteps worn	I
A path in hell for ever would I bless	H
Horrors which nourish an uneasiness	H
For my own sullen conquering to him	H2
Who lives beyond earth's boundary grief is dim	H2
Sorrow is but a shadow now I see	H
The grass I feel the solid ground Ah me	H
It is thy voice divinest Where who who	X
Left thee so quiet on this bed of dew	X
Behold upon this happy earth we are	X
Let us ay love each other let us fare	X
On forest fruits and never never go	X
Among the abodes of mortals here below	X
Or be by phantoms duped O destiny	H
Into a labyrinth now my soul would fly	X
But with thy beauty will I deaden it	X
Where didst thou melt too By thee will I sit	X
For ever let our fate stop here a kid	X
I on this spot will offer Pan will bid	X
Us live in peace in love and peace among	N
His forest wildernesses I have clung	N
To nothing lov'd a nothing nothing seen	I
Or felt but a great dream O I have been	I
Presumptuous against love against the sky	X
Against all elements against the tie	X
Of mortals each to each against the blooms	H
Of flowers rush of rivers and the tombs	H
Of heroes gone Against his proper glory	H
Has my own soul conspired so my story	H
Will I to children utter and repent	X
There never liv'd a mortal man who bent	X
His appetite beyond his natural sphere	X
But starv'd and died My sweetest Indian here	X
Here will I kneel for thou redeemed hast	X
My life from too thin breathing gone and past	X
Are cloudy phantasms Caverns lone farewel	X
And air of visions and the monstrous swell	X
Of visionary seas No never more	X
Shall airy voices cheat me to the shore	X
Of tangled wonder breathless and aghast	X
Adieu my daintiest Dream although so vast	X
My love is still for thee The hour may come	H2
When we shall meet in pure elysium	H2
On earth I may not love thee and therefore	X
Doves will I offer up and sweetest store	X
All through the teeming year so thou wilt shine	I
On me and on this damsel fair of mine	I
And bless our simple lives My Indian bliss	H
My river lily bud one human kiss	H
One sigh of real breath one gentle squeeze	H
Warm as a dove's nest among summer trees	H
And warm with dew at ooze from living blood	X
Whither didst melt Ah what of that all good	X
We'll talk about no more of dreaming Now	I
Where shall our dwelling be Under the brow	I
Of some steep mossy hill where ivy dun	I
Would hide us up although spring leaves were none	I
And where dark yew trees as we rustle through	X
Will drop their scarlet berry cups of dew	X
O thou wouldst joy to live in such a place	H
Dusk for our loves yet light enough to grace	H
Those gentle limbs on mossy bed reclin'd	X
For by one step the blue sky shouldst thou find	X
And by another in deep dell below	X
See through the trees a little river go	X
All in its mid day gold and glimmering	N
Honey from out the gnarled hive I'll bring	N
And apples wan with sweetness gather thee	H
Cresses that grow where no man may them see	H
And sorrel untorn by the dew claw'd stag	N
Pipes will I fashion of the syrinx flag	N
That thou mayst always know whither I roam	H2
When it shall please thee in our quiet home	H2
To listen and think of love Still let me speak	N
Still let me dive into the joy I seek	N
For yet the past doth prison me The rill	X
Thou haply mayst delight in will I fill	X
With fairy fishes from the mountain tarn	I
And thou shalt feed them from the squirrel's barn	I
Its bottom will I strew with amber shells	H
And pebbles blue from deep enchanted wells	H
Its sides I'll plant with dew sweet eglantine	I
And honeysuckles full of clear bee wine	I
I will entice this crystal rill to trace	H
Love's silver name upon the meadow's face	H
I'll kneel to Vesta for a flame of fire	X
And to god Phoebus for a golden lyre	X
To Empress Dian for a hunting spear	X
To Vesper for a taper silver clear	X
That I may see thy beauty through the night	X
To Flora and a nightingale shall light	X
Tame on thy finger to the River gods	H
And they shall bring thee taper fishing rods	H
Of gold and lines of Naiads' long bright tress	H
Heaven shield thee for thine utter loveliness	H
Thy mossy footstool shall the altar be	H
'Fore which I'll bend bending dear love to thee	H
Those lips shall be my Delphos and shall speak	N
Laws to my footsteps colour to my cheek	N
Trembling or stedfastness to this same voice	H
And of three sweetest pleasurings the choice	H
And that affectionate light those diamond things	H
Those eyes those passions those supreme pearl springs	H
Shall be my grief or twinkle me to pleasure	X
Say is not bliss within our perfect seisure	X
O that I could not doubt	X
	-
The mountaineer	X
Thus strove by fancies vain and crude to clear	X
His briar'd path to some tranquillity	X
It gave bright gladness to his lady's eye	X
And yet the tears she wept were tears of sorrow	X
Answering thus just as the golden morrow	X
Beam'd upward from the vallies of the east	X
O that the flutter of this heart had ceas'd	X
Or the sweet name of love had pass'd away	X
Young feather'd tyrant by a swift decay	X
Wilt thou devote this body to the earth	H
And I do think that at my very birth	H
I lisp'd thy blooming titles inwardly	H
For at the first first dawn and thought of thee	H
With uplift hands I blest the stars of heaven	I
Art thou not cruel Ever have I striven	I
To think thee kind but ah it will not do	X
When yet a child I heard that kisses drew	X
Favour from thee and so I kisses gave	J2
To the void air bidding them find out love	K2
But when I came to feel how far above	K2
All fancy pride and fickle maidenhood	X
All earthly pleasure all imagin'd good	X
Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss	H
Even then that moment at the thought of this	H
Fainting I fell into a bed of flowers	H
And languish'd there three days Ye milder powers	H
Am I not cruelly wrong'd Believe believe	O2
Me dear Endymion were I to weave	O2
With my own fancies garlands of sweet life	P2
Thou shouldst be one of all Ah bitter strife	P2
I may not be thy love I am forbidden	I
Indeed I am thwarted affrighted chidden	I
By things I trembled at and gorgon wrath	H
Twice hast thou ask'd whither I went henceforth	H
Ask me no more I may not utter it	X
Nor may I be thy love We might commit	X
Ourselves at once to vengeance we might die	X
We might embrace and die voluptuous thought	X
Enlarge not to my hunger or I'm caught	X
In trammels of perverse deliciousness	H
No no that shall not be thee will I bless	H
And bid a long adieu	X
	-
The Carian	I
No word return'd both lovelorn silent wan	I
Into the vallies green together went	X
Far wandering they were perforce content	X
To sit beneath a fair lone beechen tree	H
Nor at each other gaz'd but heavily	H
Por'd on its hazle cirque of shedded leaves	H
	-
Endymion unhappy it nigh grieves	H
Me to behold thee thus in last extreme	H2
Ensky'd ere this but truly that I deem	H2
Truth the best music in a first born song	N
Thy lute voic'd brother will I sing ere long	N
And thou shalt aid hast thou not aided me	H
Yes moonlight Emperor felicity	H
Has been thy meed for many thousand years	H
Yet often have I on the brink of tears	H
Mourn'd as if yet thou wert a forester	X
Forgetting the old tale	X
	-
He did not stir	X
His eyes from the dead leaves or one small pulse	H
Of joy he might have felt The spirit culls	H
Unfaded amaranth when wild it strays	H
Through the old garden ground of boyish days	H
A little onward ran the very stream	H2
By which he took his first soft poppy dream	H2
And on the very bark 'gainst which he leant	X
A crescent he had carv'd and round it spent	X
His skill in little stars The teeming tree	H
Had swollen and green'd the pious charactery	H
But not ta'en out Why there was not a slope	Q2
Up which he had not fear'd the antelope	Q2
And not a tree beneath whose rooty shade	X
He had not with his tamed leopards play'd	X
Nor could an arrow light or javelin	I
Fly in the air where his had never been	I
And yet he knew it not	X
	-
O treachery	H
Why does his lady smile pleasing her eye	X
With all his sorrowing He sees her not	X
But who so stares on him His sister sure	H
Peona of the woods Can she endure	H
Impossible how dearly they embrace	H
His lady smiles delight is in her face	H
It is no treachery	H
	-
Dear brother mine	I
Endymion weep not so Why shouldst thou pine	I
When all great Latmos so exalt wilt be	H
Thank the great gods and look not bitterly	H
And speak not one pale word and sigh no more	H
Sure I will not believe thou hast such store	H
Of grief to last thee to my kiss again	I
Thou surely canst not bear a mind in pain	I
Come hand in hand with one so beautiful	X
Be happy both of you for I will pull	X
The flowers of autumn for your coronals	H
Pan's holy priest for young Endymion calls	H
And when he is restor'd thou fairest dame	H2
Shalt be our queen Now is it not a shame	H2
To see ye thus not very very sad	X
Perhaps ye are too happy to be glad	X
O feel as if it were a common day	X
Free voic'd as one who never was away	X
No tongue shall ask whence come ye but ye shall	X
Be gods of your own rest imperial	X
Not even I for one whole month will pry	X
Into the hours that have pass'd us by	X
Since in my arbour I did sing to thee	H
O Hermes on this very night will be	H
A hymning up to Cynthia queen of light	X
For the soothsayers old saw yesternight	X
Good visions in the air whence will befal	X
As say these sages health perpetual	X
To shepherds and their flocks and furthermore	H
In Dian's face they read the gentle lore	H
Therefore for her these vesper carols are	H
Our friends will all be there from nigh and far	H
Many upon thy death have ditties made	X
And many even now their foreheads shade	X
With cypress on a day of sacrifice	H
New singing for our maids shalt thou devise	H
And pluck the sorrow from our huntsmen's brows	H
Tell me my lady queen how to espouse	H
This wayward brother to his rightful joys	H
His eyes are on thee bent as thou didst poise	H
His fate most goddess like Help me I pray	X
To lure Endymion dear brother say	X
What ails thee He could bear no more and so	H
Bent his soul fiercely like a spiritual bow	I
And twang'd it inwardly and calmly said	X
I would have thee my only friend sweet maid	X
My only visitor not ignorant though	H
That those deceptions which for pleasure go	H
'Mong men are pleasures real as real may be	H
But there are higher ones I may not see	H
If impiously an earthly realm I take	N
Since I saw thee I have been wide awake	N
Night after night and day by day until	X
Of the empyrean I have drunk my fill	X
Let it content thee Sister seeing me	H
More happy than betides mortality	H
A hermit young I'll live in mossy cave	J2
Where thou alone shalt come to me and lave	J2
Thy spirit in the wonders I shall tell	X
Through me the shepherd realm shall prosper well	X
For to thy tongue will I all health confide	X
And for my sake let this young maid abide	X
With thee as a dear sister Thou alone	I
Peona mayst return to me I own	I
This may sound strangely but when dearest girl	X
Thou seest it for my happiness no pearl	X
Will trespass down those cheeks Companion fair	H
Wilt be content to dwell with her to share	H
This sister's love with me Like one resign'd	X
And bent by circumstance and thereby blind	X
In self commitment thus that meek unknown	I
Aye but a buzzing by my ears has flown	I
Of jubilee to Dian truth I heard	X
Well then I see there is no little bird	X
Tender soever but is Jove's own care	H
Long have I sought for rest and unaware	H
Behold I find it so exalted too	X
So after my own heart I knew I knew	X
There was a place untenanted in it	X
In that same void white Chastity shall sit	X
And monitor me nightly to lone slumber	H
With sanest lips I vow me to the number	H
Of Dian's sisterhood and kind lady	H
With thy good help this very night shall see	H
My future days to her fane consecrate	X
	-
As feels a dreamer what doth most create	X
His own particular fright so these three felt	X
Or like one who in after ages knelt	X
To Lucifer or Baal when he'd pine	I
After a little sleep or when in mine	I
Far under ground a sleeper meets his friends	H
Who know him not Each diligently bends	H
Towards common thoughts and things for very fear	H
Striving their ghastly malady to cheer	H
By thinking it a thing of yes and no	H
That housewives talk of But the spirit blow	H
Was struck and all were dreamers At the last	X
Endymion said Are not our fates all cast	X
Why stand we here Adieu ye tender pair	H
Adieu Whereat those maidens with wild stare	H
Walk'd dizzily away Pained and hot	X
His eyes went after them until they got	X
Near to a cypress grove whose deadly maw	H2
In one swift moment would what then he saw	H2
Engulph for ever Stay he cried ah stay	X
Turn damsels hist one word I have to say	X
Sweet Indian I would see thee once again	I
It is a thing I dote on so I'd fain	I
Peona ye should hand in hand repair	H
Into those holy groves that silent are	H
Behind great Dian's temple I'll be yon	I
At vesper's earliest twinkle they are gone	I
But once once once again At this he press'd	X
His hands against his face and then did rest	X
His head upon a mossy hillock green	I
And so remain'd as he a corpse had been	I
All the long day save when he scantly lifted	X
His eyes abroad to see how shadows shifted	X
With the slow move of time sluggish and weary	H
Until the poplar tops in journey dreary	H
Had reach'd the river's brim Then up he rose	H
And slowly as that very river flows	H
Walk'd towards the temple grove with this lament	X
Why such a golden eve The breeze is sent	X
Careful and soft that not a leaf may fall	X
Before the serene father of them all	X
Bows down his summer head below the west	X
Now am I of breath speech and speed possest	X
But at the setting I must bid adieu	X
To her for the last time Night will strew	X
On the damp grass myriads of lingering leaves	H
And with them shall I die nor much it grieves	H
To die when summer dies on the cold sward	X
Why I have been a butterfly a lord	X
Of flowers garlands love knots silly posies	H
Groves meadows melodies and arbour roses	H
My kingdom's at its death and just it is	H
That I should die with it so in all this	H
We miscal grief bale sorrow heartbreak woe	H
What is there to plain of By Titan's foe	H
I am but rightly serv'd So saying he	H
Tripp'd lightly on in sort of deathful glee	H
Laughing at the clear stream and setting sun	I
As though they jests had been nor had he done	I
His laugh at nature's holy countenance	H
Until that grove appear'd as if perchance	H
And then his tongue with sober seemlihed	X
Gave utterance as he entered Ha I said	X
King of the butterflies but by this gloom	H2
And by old Rhadamanthus' tongue of doom	H2
This dusk religion pomp of solitude	X
And the Promethean clay by thief endued	X
By old Saturnus' forelock by his head	X
Shook with eternal palsy I did wed	X
Myself to things of light from infancy	H
And thus to be cast out thus lorn to die	X
Is sure enough to make a mortal man	I
Grow impious So he inwardly began	I
On things for which no wording can be found	X
Deeper and deeper sinking until drown'd	X
Beyond the reach of music for the choir	H
Of Cynthia he heard not though rough briar	H
Nor muffling thicket interpos'd to dull	X
The vesper hymn far swollen soft and full	X
Through the dark pillars of those sylvan aisles	H
He saw not the two maidens nor their smiles	H
Wan as primroses gather'd at midnight	X
By chilly finger'd spring Unhappy wight	X
Endymion said Peona we are here	H
What wouldst thou ere we all are laid on bier	H
Then he embrac'd her and his lady's hand	X
Press'd saying Sister I would have command	X
If it were heaven's will on our sad fate	X
At which that dark eyed stranger stood elate	X
And said in a new voice but sweet as love	K2
To Endymion's amaze By Cupid's dove	K2
And so thou shalt and by the lily truth	H
Of my own breast thou shalt beloved youth	H
And as she spake into her face there came	H2
Light as reflected from a silver flame	H2
Her long black hair swell'd ampler in display	X
Full golden in her eyes a brighter day	X
Dawn'd blue and full of love Aye he beheld	X
Phoebe his passion joyous she upheld	X
Her lucid bow continuing thus Drear drear	H
Has our delaying been but foolish fear	H
Withheld me first and then decrees of fate	X
And then 'twas fit that from this mortal state	X
Thou shouldst my love by some unlook'd for change	L2
Be spiritualiz'd Peona we shall range	L2
These forests and to thee they safe shall be	H
As was thy cradle hither shalt thou flee	H
To meet us many a time Next Cynthia bright	X
Peona kiss'd and bless'd with fair good night	X
Her brother kiss'd her too and knelt adown	I
Before his goddess in a blissful swoon	I
She gave her fair hands to him and behold	X
Before three swiftest kisses he had told	X
They vanish'd far away Peona went	X
Home through the gloomy wood in wonderment	X

John Keats

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